MISTRESSES

(Shelley Conn, Sharon Small, Sarah Parish and Orla Brady ©Ecosse Films)

BBC Entertainment offers series that is a bold take on modern love.

BBC Entertainment on DStv presents Mistresses from April 21 at 20h30, to continue every Tuesday at the same time.

You don't wake up wanting to be someone's mistress - somehow it just happens…

Set in a world where friends have become the new family, Mistresses follows the lives and loves of a group of 30-something girlfriends who met at university but whose lives have taken very different turns.

Katie, a doctor, has been having an affair with one of her patients, while her best friend Trudi is grieving the loss of her husband, killed in 9/11. Jessica, whose anarchic lifestyle provides lots of gossip and humour, is concealing matters of the heart from her friends, and there’s also more than meets the eye to Siobhan’s seemingly happy marriage…

From dizzy highs to extreme lows, from excitement and happiness to torment and loneliness, these friends are on a journey with no signposts, led by their emotions and struggling to hold it all together. This is a story about secrets and anger, passion and lust, loss and guilt. Part drama, part thriller, Mistresses is a bold take on modern love.

What the press says about Mistresses: “Well-made and classily performed, but above all, juicy.” – Guardian; “Grittier than Sex And The City, it shows the impact of all the lies and deceit that are the price of the thrills and excitement of an illicit affair.” - Express on Sunday